SUMMARY:
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POPE RECEIVES PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC OF EQUADOR: CENTRALITY OF SOCIAL
JUSTICE AND SOLIDARITY
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VATICAN MUSEUMS: BEAUTY TO BE HEARD
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AUDIENCES
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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS
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POPE
RECEIVES PRESIDENT OF REPUBLIC OF EQUADOR: CENTRALITY OF SOCIAL
JUSTICE AND SOLIDARITY
Vatican
City, 19 April 2013 (VIS) – This morning in the Vatican Apostolic
Palace, the Holy Father received in audience Mr. Rafael Correa
Delgado, president of the Republic of Equador. President Correa then
met with the Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B.,
accompanied by Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, secretary for Relations
with States.
During
the talks, which were held in an atmosphere of cordiality, the
Catholic Church's significant contribution in the various sectors of
the country's social life and the importance of sincere and permanent
dialogue between the Church and the State to address fundamental
societal challenges were discussed.
Then,
the centrality of social justice and the value of solidarity and
subsidiarity in seeking the common good were emphasized. Finally,
issues regarding current events in the region, respect for indigenous
peoples and their culture, as well as environmental protection were
treated.
VATICAN
MUSEUMS: BEAUTY TO BE HEARD
Vatican
City, 19 April 2013 (VIS) – Beginning 3 May until the end of
October (except during the month of August) the Vatican Museums will
host 21 evenings of music. Every Friday the Museums will have special
hours from 7:30pm until 11:00pm. During these special openings, the
music of Brahms, Debussy, Beethoven, Respighi, Piazzolla,
Mendelssohn, and others will be offered in the Rooms of Raphael, the
Gregorian Museum, the terraces of the Pinacoteca, or the Courtyard of
the Pinecone in concerts beginning at 8:30pm and lasting around an
hour.
The
musical series, entitled “Beauty to be Heard” is the result of a
collaboration between the Vatican Museums, the Venaria Real (the
Royal Palace of Turin, Italy, a Baroque masterpiece declared a UNESCO
World Heritage Site), and the Giuseppe Verdi National Conservatory of
Turin. The initiative was born of the conviction that the Museums and
the Venaria Real are not simply collections, architecture, history,
or culture from the past, but the ideal meeting place for all those
who want to transform art into a passion to be shared. In the "Room
of the Signatura" of Raphael's Stanze, two winged cupids in the
lunette above the Parnassus Wall—where Apollo, the god of Beauty
and Poetry, surrounded by the Muses representing all the Arts, plays
a lyre—bear signs reading “Numine afflatur”, inviting us to
contemplate that Art, in all its manifestations, is inspired by
divinity.
The
beauty of music and the beauty of the figurative arts go hand in
hand, Raphael says, portraying Apollo at the centre of his celestial
court. This unity is what the youth of the Giuseppe Verdi National
Conservatory wish to demonstrate in their Friday concerts at the
Vatican Museums. The initiative also includes Saturday performances
at the Venaria Reale during the summer months.
The
Vatican Museums administration has also provided for a series of
thematic guided visits on the musical iconography within the Museums.
The complete schedule of “Il Bello da Sentire” (Beauty to be
Heard) with the information regarding the places where the concerts
will take place and details of the guided “musical” visits is
available, in Italian, on the Vatican Museum website:
www.museivaticani.va.
AUDIENCES
Vatican
City, 19 April 2013 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father received:
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His Beatitude Ignace Youssif III Younan, Patriarch of Antioch of the
Syrians, Lebanon, and
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His Excellency Mr. Antun Sbutega, ambassador of the Republic of
Montenegro, on his farewell visit.
OTHER
PONTIFICAL ACTS
Vatican
City, 19 April 2013 (VIS) – Today the Holy Father appointed Fr.
Milan Lach, S.J., as auxiliary of the Archeparchy of Presov for
Catholics of Byzantine rite (Catholics 123,373, priests 294,
permanent deacons 2, religious 126), Slovak Republic. The
bishop-elect was born in Kezmarok, Slovakia in 1973 and was ordained
a priest in 2001. Since ordination he has served in several pastoral
and academic roles, most recently as vice dean for Foreign Relations
and Development in the Theology faculty of the University of Trnava,
Slovakia. The Holy Father has assigned him the Titular See of
Ostracine.
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